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Hunza still tense on Thursday’s police killings
HUNZA: Tension and a reign of terror prevail here on the second day, following Thursday’s killings of two men in police firing on the demonstrating Attabad affectees on the arrival of the Hunza chief minister.
Life in entire Hunza remains stand still, as all the government and private offices including schools and educational institutions remained closed, while a large number of people have thronged Tehsil Aliabad of Hunza. The demonstrators have given 24 hours ultimatum for taking action against those responsible for yesterday’s police firing on the peaceful protesters and killing the father and the son. Locals said that Attaabad’s artificial lake affectees were peacefully protesting during Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister’s visit, but the police used excessive force against the protesters and the police baton-charged and opened fire on the protesters. The demonstrators had staged sit-in with the bodies of the father and the son on Shahrah-e-Karakoram.
On the other hand, the police and the law enforcing agencies after yesterday’s clash with demonstrators have disappeared from the roads, while the demonstrators in groups at different places kept marching in rage raising slogans against the government.
Gilgit Baltistan Chief Minister, Syed Mehdi Shah yesterday had left for Hunza on Nagar area’s Sas valley tour, when the police tried to clear off the Attabad affectees demonstrating on the way that led to the clash, resulting in the death of two persons and wounding four, while four policemen including the DSP were also injured. Later, the enraged crowd had torched the Aliabad deputy commissioner’s office, rest house, police station along with a mobile and four government vehicles.
Courtesy www.geo.tv